03-15-2017, 04:46 PM
Quote:In reply to line 2; no, I do not live in the South. I am in the suburban Chicago area; might be noted that MLK once said that the people of Mississippi should come north to learn how to hate. No, 1965 was 52 years ago; I am now 72. What I was questioning was, if more power was again ceded to the states whether the South might make any attempts at this. Some of the voting laws seem to be a step in that direction. I would hope that, in the intervening 52 years that folks there have become enlightened enough not to allow for anything of that nature to resurface.
It's really not the same society it was 50 years ago. This is not to say that *-ism is a thing of the past, or even that it won't be present in the future, only that worries of the reinstatement of Jim Crow make about as much sense as worries of the German re-establishment of the Third Reich.